Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-01-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
was n Wednesday.

Gladstone was n Wednesday.
Senator Plumb has contributed $3.50 tt
the Logan fund.
General Sheridan will take charge of thu
Logan funeral procession.
The amount taken in the Frisco express
robbery was between $8l, eco and $4,000.
Michael Davitt was married to Miss Mamie
Yore at Oakland, CAL. on December 3lst.
James s. Evers, an old man, was frozen to
death between Cuba and Steelville, Mo.
By a recent election, Jefferson City, Mo.
decided to become city of the third class.
The federal court has set aside the sale OF
the Little, Mississippi River q Texas road to
Jay Gould.
There is move on foot to have the g. A.
B. posts pay off the mortgages on the Lo-
gan homestead.
The Mahoning Valley coal miners, 5000,
return to work ct an advance OF 10 cents
per ton.
The Hotel Laclede at Chicago was badly
damaged by fire yesterday and several per-
sons narrowly escaped suffocation.
Peppina Latorre, and Italian girl, fell in
front of an Elevated railroad train at New
York and was horribly mangled.
The fund started for the relief of Mrs.
Logan has reached SIG, 900, and is expected
10 reach 800, 900 before it is closed.
John F. erosion, prominent real estate
dealer of San Antonio, Tex, committed
suicide on account of fnsncial trouble.
The sheriff at Hot Springs, Ark, raided
svery gambling establishment in town and
burned the tables and chips in the street.
On an order by Judge Gresham, Mr.. Per
kins, the contum acious witness in the Iudi-
ana election fraud cases, was released on
bail.
Rev. DIR. Truman A. Post, the father of
the Congregational denomination in St.
Louis, expired in the city yesterday at the
age Of rs.
Cora Lee was brought from Springfield,
No., from Bolivar to be tried as an acce g.
DRY to the murder of Sarah Graham on Oc-
sober I, 1856.
v Rev. F. Debos, Congregationalist of
Fort Howard, Wis, was made to surrender
his pulpit because of the existence of two
wives.
The Indian commission has arranged with
he red men at Beerthold, Mont, to surrender
n st of their reservation and accept lands
n severality.
The secretary of the treasury has been in.
formed that two firms in Hong Kong are
largely engaged in selling certificates to
land Chinese in the United States.
The New York World is at last enabled
TO state on the very best authority that the
Rev. DIR. McGlyAu is under indefinite sus-
pension, both as q rector and priest.
The grand jury of Chicago, H., has in
dicted Henri Jansen for the murder of his
wife last month. During his confinement
il jail he has steadily feigned insanity.
Three men were killed, four severely
wounded, and fifty others injured by the ex-
plosion Of two large boilers in the factory
of ]. F. Seiberling & Co., at Akron, Ohio.
A man named Jacques, employed in silk
fhctory in London, made an attempt to fast
Tor q prolonged period, but yielded to the
temptation Of q hot breakfast on the twenty
erst day.
a. W. Giffin was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Jones at Springfield,
Mo-, and held for trial on charge of per
sonstinQ land agent and defrauding man
out of S..
Marshal Hume, at Forest, O., shot and
killed Charles Tarietou, who he was taking
under arrest from Tifiin. Tarleton at
tempted to escape, and attacked hume with
q knife, when the latter fred and killed his
prisoner.
G. j. johnson embezzled $1,000 from a
grocery house at Peoria, ILL.,, and fed to To-
ronto. He was induced to return by forged
telegram from a friend. On reaching Chi
cago, his friends made good his stealings.
A number of young professional and bus
inees men of vicksDurg, Miss, gave an
elaborate dinner on Christmas at the state
hospital IN Vicksburg. costing them several
hundred dollars, and alAddened the hearts
Of the many unfortunate inmct es.
G. Mann. of Minneapolis, Mimi, COM
pleted the task of eating thirty quails in
The project was undertaken by Mann on a
wager Of $1,000. His appearance and
health was not perceptibly affected by the
feat. Only three other successful attempt
Of the kind are on record.
The largest ami most disastrous
liverpool since 18H destroyed the extensive
retail stores of John F.Lewis d Co., on the
Rrunswick road. The stores contained
IN enormous Christmas stock, all of which
uss consumed, as vas also an attractive
Denaaerie connected with che establish
ment The total loss is 100000
The body of Peter Brown. known as this
'Conemaugh hermit, who for nearly fifty
pears has lived alone in the AIeghanies, was
Cremated in the Sampson's Natural Gas
crematory, Pittsburg, Pa. The remains
Wbre shipped from Johnstown in the morn
ing in a fine casket and returned to Johns
town the same evening. The incineration
vas in accordance with the will of the de-
ceased.
A desperate fight between two farmers,
eaused BY an old grudge, occurred between
Elijah 4. Treadway and Edward Taylor in |
Cream Ridge township, Missouri, in
tbs course of which 1readway had three |
ribs broken by club in the hands of Tay-
lof and may not recover. Taylor lost suit |
Of clothes By knife in Treadwsy's hands.
but escaped with only slight flesh wound |
inst over his heart.
Oficer Michael o, Brien, of the central
dstail, who WIS woundedin the leg at the
Haymarket riot in Chicago, last May, is in
. critical condition. He Was able to be
ebort for Q time, then relapee compelled
HIN 70 return to his bed. O'Brien's left |
71l5Gh - swollen 70 double il normal aixe, L